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I think this site has some flaws. I know I'm not the only one that has a 19" monitor rotated 90*. So all the little "Recent Articles" things on the right side of the screen really squishes the left forum side to about 65% of the screen. It's not impossible to read of course but with 5 columns to get squished into 65% it does tend to cause each subject to be 4 or 5 lines in height.

And of course you can check out my own sites. I'm not a designer with graphical knowledge. I'm more technical and look for ways to provide the content in the clearest way possible.

I would consider a 'bad' website one with terrible graphical elements. It could be an abomination of all GUI standards and logical or common-sense design practices. It could hurt your eyes, be unreadable, contain too much animation, or even have too much clutter. Basically, a bad site in this respect would just be an atrocity of any sense of design.

Free web sites for anyone. You got access to a loader and a directory and could then create a web site. I had a few. Lots of rotating skulls, blink text, and marquees. Sites that would make your eyes bleed. But sites with lots of good information. At the end, it was harder to find the good sites.

I was referred to http://www.e-careers.co.uk/ for training, but when I saw it, it looked a bit like a dating website or adult themed website. It's awful!

I wrote to the people expressing my thoughts about how awful it was, and asked if they were sure I could trust these people; if their website is so bad, how can I trust them to train me to make good websites?

There excuse was that their target audience are people who are not very experienced with the industry. What exactly do they mean by that? 'We made our website look bad to make our customers feel better about their ability'?

For both my book and the website I have it on, I do indeed have precisely such a warning.

Originally Posted by JTweedie

I was referred to http://www.e-careers.co.uk/ for training, but when I saw it, it looked a bit like a dating website or adult themed website. It's awful!

I wrote to the people expressing my thoughts about how awful it was, and asked if they were sure I could trust these people; if their website is so bad, how can I trust them to train me to make good websites?

There excuse was that their target audience are people who are not very experienced with the industry. What exactly do they mean by that? 'We made our website look bad to make our customers feel better about their ability'?